Yeah, but it's not like you would leave it in there for half an hour. Have you ever put Mealworms in the fridge? They can survive for months in the fridge. Obviously Tarantulas arent mealworms but you get what I mean.

I think that it will put the female off immediately, and perhaps piss her off too.
Think about it, you can do it outdoors in the summer easily, but most ladies is not so willing in the winter outdoors @ night.
The climate changes triggers the urge to reproduce, or perhaps I'm farting against thunder.
:spider:

Well it is certainly an interesting theory. Rather than take the female out of her enclosure though I would suggest moving the enclosure into the fridge if possible so as not to disturb her anymore than need be. It isn't something I'd do or recommend myself but it is nice to see people thinking outside the box.
It has also given me an idea for possibly salvaging bad matings. If one of my females munches a male before any mating takes place then I put the female in a CO2 chamber to knock it out and then insert the embolus of the dead male into her furrow and give the bulb a squeeze with a pair of tweezers to release the sperm.

Reason will be at bottom of page!

I still think it not a good Idea and it wont work as I have suggested, you have to control the temp and the spider so the spider will still be able to function in the mating process, if the spider is cooled down to much the spider will not be able to do the tapping and the mating dance!
The female will be to unstable on her feet the male will just shunt her around causing her to fall, which will and could cause the female to get hurt and freak out cause what is going on here?!
And another thing a cold spider goes and sits closure tot he ground and curls it self up, it does not have that much movement to extend, limited movement yet another problem, how does a male lif a female that does not wont to be left or helps the male in the concept!?

And again, the mating of a spider does not just happen it can take 10mins to days for a insert.
No the stress of moving it into another container to cool down and back into her cage.
Some females need to be courted before they give in!?

None the less, I think it is a bad Idea and the poor spider will be the one getting the crap end of the stick all cause you wont to try a new method of breeding! Spiders have been Mating for 100ds of years without fridges in the picture.

This my Honest opionion and I have done the test to prove my piont and makes it seem even more of a no no from my side.

I took two Mature Male curlies.

Test started with the temps messured in the spiders containers, which was 17.8⁰C at 11:30.

Then temps in fridge and freezer wore taken 11:30 to 12:00.
Fridge = 6.5⁰C
Freezer = -8.1⁰C

So spider 1 went into fridge at 12:00 to 13:45 (right hand spider)
Spider was in fridge for 1 hour and 45mins @ 6.2⁰C
So I Check on him every 10mins.

10mins no change in spider, legs spread out spider relaxed(if you can say that)
20mins no change in spider, legs spread out spider relaxed
30mins Spider started to stumble
41min starting to sit in one place legs getting closer to body
50mins spider still got movement but very sluggish.
60mins spider has some movement when you touch him
90mins spider has no movement and spider is basically dead.
14:00, spider been out of fridge for 15mins, sitting on the floor by my feet.
Spider is still sitting in one place barely moving.

Spider 2 went into freezer at 13:00 to 13:35 (left hand spider)
Spider was in freezer for 35mins @ -8.1⁰C

15mins spider had started stumbling when it moved.
30mins Spider was almost dead, no movement what so ever.

Spider was out for 5 mins and started moving again,
15mins of being out of freezer and spider 2 is back to normal, flicking and moving around like nothing happened!

None the less As I said 30 mins will not be enough time for the spider to be calm enough and any longer and you defeat the whole Idea as your spider will not be able to do what she is required to do.
30 mins and the spider will be back to normal in no time flat as soon as she is out the fridge.

Spider 1 before fridge.



Spider 2 before freezer



Spider 1, After 1hour and 45mins .



Spider 2, After 35mins.



Both spider together.
Spider 1, on the right
Spider 2, on the left

So after test, Spider 1 has come back to life, even went half way up the wall ! :spider:


1 hour after test, and spider has got full movement, will try feeding them in a bit and see what they do with that.

HeteroScuderia wrote: ... [DISCLAIMER] I just came out of hospital again... so I might be talking total crap because of medicines...

Sorry to hear this. This is not good news ( ), except that you survived long enough to get out. But, it sounds like your meds are good drugs! :woohoo:

Congratulations.